Shipbuilding
Bayou La Batre is a center for shipbuilding. The shipyards are owned and operated mainly by local families such as Steiner Ship Yard, Rodriguez Boat Builders, and Master Boat Builders.
People from all over the world including the United States, South America, and Africa have boats built in Bayou La Batre frequently. In 2005, Steiner Ship Yard was asked by Walt Disney Studios to secretly built a pirate ship, the "Black Pearl" the pitch-black ship was actually a huge wooden prop built on top of a modern 96-foot-long steel utility boat. In April 2005, crews sailed the ship out of the bayou for filming in the Caribbean, making sequels to Disney's 2003 film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and was featured in the movie.
Another ship, the FV Cornelia Marie from the Deadliest Catch series, was built in Bayou La Batre in 1989.
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